OneApp Slide Show is a slide show and presentation tool for multimedia files, QuickTime movies, sounds and images. It's fast and easy to use. OneApp Slide Show lets you personalize the presentation to adapt it to the most varied needs. You can create presentations and slide shows that are controlled manually or automatically. You can personalize the presentation environment with colored backgrounds or patterns, use a soundtrack during presentation, and display the names of the images and movies that are showed.
OneApp Slide Show can handle a wide range of graphic and multimedia formats: QuickTime Movies, QuickTime VR Movies, MP3, MPEG, AutoDesk Animator (FLC), AIFF, AU, WAVE, DV, OpenDML audio files, and all the main graphic formats such as JPEG, TIFF, Pict, Photoshop, PNG, MacPaint, GIF, animated GIF, Windows Bitmap BMP and SGI.
Using OneApp Slide Show you can create presentations that can be distributed as standalone applications. These are so easy to use that anyone can launch them just by double-clicking.
It's a must for anyone who wants to distribute presentations or collections of movies and images on Zip disks, CD-ROMs or any other digital medium. It can be used to prepare school lessons or staff training material.
OneApp Slide Show is a shareware program. If you use it for more than a week or two, you should register it using the “Register” application that came with it. Fill in the registration form and send it to Kagi Software or, if you have an internet connection and wish to pay with a credit card, you can register Slide Show online using the web registration form that is available online.
Among the enhancements made in this release are:
• You can now use up and down key arrows during the presentation to modify the audio volume.
• You can use left and right key arrows to go to previous and next file in a manual presentation.
• You can use the space bar to pause the presentation (and any key to restart it).
• Choosing a color as background for the presentation now is no more limited to 255 colors.
• New Aqua-style presentation background.
• Several improvements to existing features have been made and all known bugs have been fixed.
2) System Requirements
Mac OS 7.1 or later, QuickTime 3.0 or later. To play MP3 and MPEG files you need QuickTime 4.0 or later.
3) What files can it handle?
OneApp Slide Show can handle movies, images, and audio files.
Movies and audio files
OneApp Slide Show can play QuickTime, QuickTime VR, MP3, MPEG, AutoDesk Animator (FLC), AU, OpenDML, DV, WAVE and AIFF files.
QuickTime movies can be created by many specialized programs, such as Adobe Premiere and many others. Some of them can edit QuickTime movies, extracting particular tracks, cutting, and carrying out other editing processes.
Audio AIFF files can be created by the major audio editing programs.
Images
OneApp Slide Show can play all the main graphic formats: JPEG, TIFF, Pict, Photoshop, PNG, MacPaint, GIF, animated GIF, Windows Bitmap BMP and SGI.
Graphic files are created using commercial or shareware graphic elaboration programs such as Photoshop or GraphicConverter, or by using the Mac's screenshot feature (press Command+Shift+3, or Command+Shift+4 if you use MacOS 8), or any other software that takes screenshots, such as DigitalCamera or the control panel Flash-It.
File Type
If you are not sure what format your files are, you can use the Find File application that comes with System 7.5 or later. Choose “Kind of document” from the pop-up menu and drag the file icon into the text field. Four alphanumeric characters will appear, relating to the file whose icon you dropped (for example MooV for Movies and PICT for PICT images).
OneApp Slide Show supports these file types: “MooV”, “Mp3 ”, “M1V ”, “MPEG”, “MPG ”, “AIFF”, “8BPS”, “BMP ”, “GIFf”, “JPEG”, “PICT”, “PNGf”, “PNTG”, “SGI ”, “TIFF”, “dvc!”, “FLI ”, “ULAW”, “VfW ”, “WAVE” (note that some of these codes include a space).
4) How do I use it?
Specify the files to be played
OneApp Slide Show can play up to 100 files or folders, even repeating them as a loop. There are several options you can choose for presentation.
The names of the files and folders allocated to a presentation are shown on five pages, with 20 names on each page. To move through these pages, click on the tags representing the various pages in the window that lists the files.
Little buttons, representing the icons of documents and folders, allow you to insert movies and images into a presentation. You don't have to follow any particular order.
Once you have inserted a file or a folder, clicking the same buttons will open a file preview or the folder on Finder depending on the kind of item.
You will see a little wastebasket icon and a checkbox at the right of the name of each file or folder. The wastebasket icon lets you delete a file or a folder from a presentation. The checkbox, on the other hand, allows you to include or exclude an file or a folder from the presentation. If the box is not checked, OneApp Slide Show will simply ignore that file or folder during presentation.
You can move a file or a folder to another position in the presentation. Simply drag its name, and drop it into the new position by releasing the mouse button. If you want to make a copy of it, keep the Option key pressed while releasing the mouse button.
5) Presentation modes
OneApp Slide Show has some sophisticated features to let you vary the way in which the presentation is carried out.
You can specify the presentation mode you would like for the presentation of the images. You can specify automatic or manual presentation. Each mode offers you further options.
You can use the space bar to pause the presentation (and any key to restart it).
Duration of images
During automatic presentation each movie window remains on the screen for as long as is necessary to play the movie, then it automatically closes to make way for the next window. Windows for other images, on the other hand, stay on the screen for the time you have specified in a pop-up menu. You can specify times in the range from 1 to 60 seconds.
Presentation as a loop
If you have chosen automatic presentation you can also choose the option for Loop Presentation. This feature continually repeats the presentation until the user interrupts it.
This option can be very useful when the presentation is to be shown to different members of the public in succession, for example in a shop window or in a multimedia publicity kiosk.
Presentation Windows
If you choose the automatic presentation mode, the style of the windows will be “Borderless”. Nothing will be displayed in the window other than the presentation itself. For instance there won't be a size box, a title bar or scroll bars. If you choose the manual presentation mode, you can specify the style of the presentation window. Three styles are available:
• Borderless (no objects in the window);
• Plain (with a title bar and a close box);
• Shadow (with a shadowed border).
Controlling the movies
If you choose manual presentation (not automatic), you can specify what controls will be available for the presentation of movies. The available options are:
• Start Automatically: the movie starts itself when its window opens. When the movie ends, it stays on the screen until the user continues the presentation by bringing up another file (using the Go menu or the palette). The window for the next file will open automatically.
• Start and Close Automatically: the movie starts automatically and, when it finishes, its window closes automatically
• Show Control Bar: the movie window will have the standard controls for QuickTime Movies. These controls allow the user to control the presentation of the movie, and to resize the window by means of the size box.
• Show Badge: the movie window will have a little icon. Clicking the icon will make the control bar appear.
• Stop and Start with a mouse click: the user will have to start the movie manually by double-clicking (he can pause it with a single click).
Controls palette
The controls palette gives you full control over the playback of a QuickTime movie displayed.
The palette provides the following commands:
• Play: plays the movie forward.
• Pause: pauses the movie.
• Reverse: plays the movie in reverse.
• Step Backward: steps the movie 1 frame backwards.
• Step Forward: steps the movie 1 frame forwards.
• Rewind: rewinds the movie to the beginning.
The menu bar
OneApp Slide Show normally hides the menu bar during presentation. Using one of the options, you can tell Slide Show to display the menu bar.
If you have chosen manual presentation, and if you have chosen the option to “Show Menu Bar”, the “Go” menu will be available during the presentation. This contains commands to advance the presentation; to display the previous file, or the final file in the presentation; and to return to the start of the presentation.
Making the menu bar available during presentation also means that the user can use the Applications menu, which allows him use any other application programs that are running.
Movies audio level
Using this option you can to set the volume control to zero for the movies to be played. The user will not be able to turn it up unless he has access to the control bar.
You can use up and down key arrows during the presentation to modify the audio volume.
The soundtrack
You can specify an audio file to be used as the soundtrack for the presentation. The file will be played repeatedly, as a loop. It is not possible to use, as soundtrack, a file that also has to be presented. If you need to do that, make an extra copy of the file and give the extra copy a different name.
Display the file names
This option lets you decide whether the name of each file should be displayed during the presentation (near the bottom of the screen). You can specify the position: at the left, in the center, or at the right.
Backgrounds for the presentations
In the Presentation Backgrounds window, you can specify what kind of background you want displayed on screen during the presentation.
You can choose a colored background (click on the icon of the colors palette), or one of the 40 predefined patterns provided for use as backgrounds.
There are yet more options available. You can use the desktop pattern (click on the icon that represents the desktop without the wastebasket or the startup disk). If you choose this option, OneApp Slide Show will create a background for the presentation by copying the desktop pattern currently in use on the computer being used at the time of the presentation. Using the current desktop pattern as a background for the presentation means that when a user starts the presentation he will get the impression that nothing has changed on his computer except that the icons have disappeared from his screen. This could be a good choice if you don't want the user to feel that the presentation is making big changes to his usual work environment. However, if the user is currently using a picture as his desktop pattern, that picture will be covered during the presentation by the pattern chosen as a background for the presentation.
You can also choose not to use a background during the presentation (click on the icon that represents the desktop with the wastebasket and startup disk icons). This allows the user to make use of other applications during the presentation: because OneApp Slide Show can work in the background, the user can switch to the Finder by clicking on the desktop.
Palette commands
If you choose manual presentation, a navigation palette will be displayed during presentation. You can use the palette to:
• go to the first presentation file;
• go to the previous file;
• end the presentation;
• go to the next file;
• go to the last file.
You can hide the navigation palette by clicking its little close box, and use the keyboard instead to manage the presentation. Click on the background to display the palette again.
Instead of using the navigation palette, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts:
• Command-1: go to the first presentation file;
• Command-2: go to the previous file;
• Command-3: go to the next file;
• Command-4: go to the last file.
You can also use left and right key arrows to go to previous and next file in a manual presentation.
6) Creating a Standalone presentation
OneApp Slide Show can create a non-editable standalone presentation. A standalone presentation is a freestanding application program. It contains a complete presentation, but the user cannot edit it, and he can carry out only the operations that the standalone author has specified. These include using the palette (if the presentation is manual), and printing or saving any information that the author has provided for (optional) display at the end of the presentation.
To create a standalone presentation, choose “Create Standalone” from the File menu to take you to the appropriate window.
You can get the standalone presentation to display an information window at the end of the presentation. The user can print or save any text you insert in that window, such as copyright notices for the files in the presentation, or any other announcements you want to include.
7) Including files in the Standalone package
If you are going to distribute the standalone presentation (for example on a Zip disk or a CD-ROM) remember to include the files for presentation, and the soundtrack if any.
Put these files into the folder that contains the freestanding standalone presentation application. You can put them loose in the same folder, or you can arrange them in subfolders.
Advanced Options
You can put the standalone presentation outside the folder that contains the files needed for presentation, but in that case you have to specify a search path, including the name of the disk, for each folder containing files needed for the presentation. You can do this by using the advanced options available in the Standalone Maker window.
A search path shows where the folder is located in the hierarchy of the disk that contains it, for example:
Presentation CD-ROM:Slide Show:Film strips:
Presentation CD-ROM:Slide Show:Still pictures:
Please note that you need to include a colon after the name of the disk, after the name of each folder, and at the end of the path.
Using these complete paths, the standalone presentation will be able to find the files needed for the presentation, regardless of the current position of the standalone presentation itself. This means that even if the user moves the standalone presentation, say from a CD-ROM onto his hard disk, the standalone presentation will still search the CD-ROM and find the files it needs for the presentation.
There are two more options for authors who distribute standalone presentations on disk. These options are useful if for some reason the standalone presentation hasn't been able to find the files:
• Ask the user to insert a particular disk. The name of the disk must be entered (without quotation marks) in the appropriate field. This option is useful when the standalone presentation is installed on the user's hard disk, but the disk containing the files to be played is not mounted (for example it is a CD-ROM or a Zip disk).
• Ask the user to locate the files that are needed. This option is useful when the user has moved the files to be played, for instance from a Zip disk.
8) Distributing presentations
If you intend to distribute a presentation, you need to save it as a standalone presentation, i.e. as a freestanding application program.
You mustn't distribute presentations made with an unregistered copy of OneApp Slide Show. Please also see the next section, “Limitations of the unregistered version”.
If you want to distribute a presentation you have created, you must register your copy of OneApp Slide Show. You will be able to use the registered copy to produce distributable versions of the presentations you have put together.
9) Limitations of the unregistered version
Unregistered copies of OneApp Slide Show have the following limitations:
• When the program is launched a dialog box tells the user that the program has not yet been registered.
• The option to repeat the presentation as a loop is not available.
• A message appears during presentation and says that the program is not registered.
• At the launch of a standalone presentation created with an unregistered copy of OneApp Slide Show, a dialog box will announce that it was created with an unregistered copy of the program.
• Standalone presentations created with an unregistered copy of the program cannot be distributed to third parties.
10) Questions and Answers
Q: Why does the icon of a newly created standalone presentation sometimes have a dog-eared corner, like a document icon?
A: When you create a standalone presentation, if you save it on the desktop or in a folder that is already open, it can happen that the Finder doesn't at first fully recognize it as a standalone application, but treats it as an ordinary document created by OneApp Slide Show. If this occurs, you can solve the problem by quitting OneApp Slide Show then moving the file into another folder that isn't open, and then moving it again to wherever you want to keep it.
Q: Can OneApp Slide Show create the images or movies to be presented?
A: No, OneApp Slide Show can't produce movies or images. It plays movies and images you have produced with other programs, in the way best suited to your needs or the needs of the people for whom you intend the presentation.
Q: A friend of mine wants to try the program. Can I give him a copy of my registered version?
A: No, every registered user has a personal registration code, which must not be distributed to third parties. The registration code is recorded inside the program, so you mustn't make a copy of your registered copy for someone else. What you could do instead is to give your friend a copy of the unregistered version, for instance a copy of the file you originally downloaded from the internet. The unregistered version has all the features of a registered copy, except for the loop presentation feature, so your friend can try it out for a week or two before he makes up his mind whether to register it.
OneApp Software Home Page: www.oneappsoftware.com
Email: email@oneappsoftware.com
Special Thanks to:
All our users for their numerous suggestions and advice. Adrienne Forbes for her advice and collaboration, Frederic Rinaldi for his very useful XFCNs and XCMDs. Karl Petersen for his help and his XFCNs and XCMDs, A. Klink for his marvellous ColorCover XCMD.
Distribution
OneApp Slide Show is shareware. The program can be freely distributed, either online or on CD-ROM without restrictions, provided that the original package is included.
Disclaimer
The authors of this software make no warranties, either express or implied, regarding the fitness of this or any version of OneApp Slide Show for any particular purpose. Use OneApp Slide Show at your own risk. The authors accept no liability for data loss or other problems caused directly or indirectly by OneApp Slide Show.
